Re: Printing Transparent Bitmap Images
Hi Fred, Sorry so late to the party, I've been away the last week and am just now catching up. A couple of things you might try: 1) On PC (don't know if it works on Macs) you can overlap text with a single image below it, the text will print with the image underneath correctly. 2) You can use my compositing library at: http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/RunRev/Downloads.htm to composite your overlapping images. 3) You can print at higher resolutions by using print card from topLeft to rightBottom into pageRect If you want to print at 150 dpi, try making your card: 8.5*150 pixels wide X 11.0*150 pixels high best, Chipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having problems printing overlapping transparent bitmap images in Revolution. I try it so many ways, but it seems that whatever I do, transparent images print poorly (they become fuzzy) and opaque images print nice and sharp. Oddly enough, sometimes images that are transparent on screen print sharp, but they also turn out to be opaque on the printout (i.e., they obliterate the images underneath.) I have tried taking a snapshot of the card and printing that; the image does print transparent, but the printout becomes fuzzy. These images need to be transparent because they often overlap one another. I am using png's. Does anyone (e.g. Chipp Walters, Scott Rossi) have any suggestions? Thanks a lot. Fred Moyer ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Printing Transparent Bitmap Images
Fred - I got caught out with this recently too. Not good news I'm afraid. Rev will only print images that have an alpha channel (transparent) in low resolution. (Presumably that is 72 dpi?) I'm not aware of any effective workaround for this, but perhaps more experienced Revolutionaries might? Sorry to be bearer of bad news :-( Chris On 22 Apr 2005, at 15:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having problems printing overlapping transparent bitmap images in Revolution. I try it so many ways, but it seems that whatever I do, transparent images print poorly (they become fuzzy) and opaque images print nice and sharp. Oddly enough, sometimes images that are transparent on screen print sharp, but they also turn out to be opaque on the printout (i.e., they obliterate the images underneath.) I have tried taking a snapshot of the card and printing that; the image does print transparent, but the printout becomes fuzzy. These images need to be transparent because they often overlap one another. I am using png's. Does anyone (e.g. Chipp Walters, Scott Rossi) have any suggestions? Thanks a lot. Fred Moyer ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Printing Transparent Bitmap Images
I'm having problems printing overlapping transparent bitmap images in Revolution. I try it so many ways, but it seems that whatever I do, transparent images print poorly (they become fuzzy) and opaque images print nice and sharp. Oddly enough, sometimes images that are transparent on screen print sharp, but they also turn out to be opaque on the printout (i.e., they obliterate the images underneath.) I have tried taking a snapshot of the card and printing that; the image does print transparent, but the printout becomes fuzzy. These images need to be transparent because they often overlap one another. I am using png's. Does anyone (e.g. Chipp Walters, Scott Rossi) have any suggestions? Thanks a lot. Fred Moyer ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
